UAB Newsstacey krueger 2018 Stacy Krueger-Hadfield, Ph.D.Red seaweeds play a critical role in economies worldwide, as they are used in hair products, toothpaste and food. A researcher in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Biology received ...

LawrentianDel Toro presented one strategy for thinking about environmental goods like biodiversity: by putting them in the framework of “ecosystem services,” or what species do for us. Some species, like bees and other pollinators, may help to enrich the ...

Quanta MagazineByJohn Rennie. February 12, 2018. Modelers find evidence that a combination of competition, predation and evolution will push ecosystems toward species diversity anywhere in the universe. Ecologists have puzzled over how the various plankton that ...

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